Dreary skies didn't keep labor demonstrators from marching through South Nashville on Saturday afternoon in a call for higher wages and better treatment by their bosses.

Dozens walked up a Nolensville Pike sidewalk as part of a Labor Day weekend demonstration. At various stops, they called for a $15 minimum wage and what they consider basic rights and benefits on the job.

Several businesses on the South Nashville road, such as Wa-Mart, McDonald's and Burger King, are ones the labor industry continues to battle with, said Vonda McDaniel, president of the Central Labor Council of Nashville.

"There are so many examples on this road that dramatize the issues here," she said.

Demonstrators from the United Auto Workers, the Workers Dignity Project, and United Food and Commercial Workers were also at the event.